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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN
18+

A two-part reincarnation experience

The performance makes use of excerpts from Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters

Main Stage
4h. 20m.
With intermission
ANDRIY ZHOLDAK
Director, Scriptwriter, Lighting Designer

ANDRIY ZHOLDAK, DANIEL ZHOLDAK
Scenic Design

DANIEL ZHOLDAK
Costume and Video Designer

SERGEY PATRAMANSKY
Sound and Music Director

DMITRY PESOTSKY
Assistant Lighting Designer

ALEXEI OBRAZTSOV
Technical Assistant

JULIA PROKHOROVA
Assistant Director

ELENA BORUNOVA
Assistant Directors

TATIANA KALININA
Executive Producer

ELENA VOZHAKINA
Masha

OLESYA SOKOLOVA
Irina

ELENA KALININA
Olga

STEPAN BALAKSHIN
Andrei

ELENA KALININA
Natasha

DMITRIY GIREV / SERGEI KUZNETSOV
Kulygin

IGOR VOLKOV
The Father or Vershinin

IVAN EFREMOV
Tusenbach

VLADIMIR MALIKOV
Saulty

SEMYON SYTNIK
Chebutykin

VASILISA ALEXEEVA
Vershinin’s Wife

ALEXANDRA BOLSHAKOVA / ANNA STEPANOVA
The Mother

Distant future, the year AD 4015, Earth calendar. As a result of a reincarnation experiment, three sisters – Masha, Irina and Olga, deceased in 1900, find a new life in the new world.

They have the classic Anton Chekhov’s play The Three Sisters uploaded into their newly reincarnated brains.

Different kinds of sound, noise and consonance, snatches of phrases they used to utter long ago give the three sisters visions of the past, while simultaneously enabling them to start a new life. Yet their half-forgotten words are filled with the same old hopes and yearnings, and it makes no difference whether the destination of the 41st century heroines is the far away space station called Moscow or the actual ancient capital of the Russian Empire. Is there no way to bypass the programme and to change your destiny?


It is the aim of the experiment to answer this question.


Actors are givers, who ignite a sparkle and keep the fire going in hopes for a better living. They tell the world how to live a better life. The first ever actor was Prometheus, who had challenged the Gods and stolen the light from their feast. He took it for humanity and gave it to us. You are chosen and marked, you are special, you are oracles and preachers. You are not made from plastic, you have red living blood coursing through your veins, which gives you the firsthand instincts of life. How can I remind you that you are kind and generous, or that your hearts start racing and hurting at the smallest instant of ugliness and injustice? You are the guardians of people’s inner beauty, you are the prophets. You have ideal principles stored and hidden inside you and your desires are strong. You are in the middle of the fight for good and evil, between the purity and the dirt. Much, very much today depends entirely on you.

Andriy Zholdak. A letter to the actors of the Turku theatre. May 2012

The performance premiered on February 4, 2016

Media about the

In his Three Sisters on the Alexandrinsky Theatre stage, Zholdak walks in outer space by transferring the events into an unreal future and imagining the three sisters reincarnating and remembering the details of the Prozorovs household and their emotions. He enlarges and completes the familiar biographies (a criminal offence!). The characters are then plunged into Faulkner’s and Bergman’s kinds of abyss. He adds the mercilessness and physiological detail of the modern cinematograph. The result is both earthly and Chekhov-like.


Nina Agisheva. Three Sisters through the Looking Glass

Snob, February 2016

The title that may strike you at first as either an attempt at flirting or a sign of precaution against the guardians of pure classic literature, on second thoughts appears remarkably relevant. The words and motifs of Chekhov’s play remain, in Zholdak’s interpretation, precisely on the other side. Not only on the other side of life and death, but also on the other side of the mysterious pulsation of Chekhov’s lines, whose laconic words hold the over rich substance of sense as if in a tight capsule.


Alena Karas’. Flying Like the Strange World Birds

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 2016

Andriy Zholdak always offers twice as much as an ordinary theatre night can hold. Yet now the wild, almost volcanic Zholdak energy is not wasted on the footlights barrier, but hits the viewers’ heads directly. Secondly, the Alexandrinsky Theatre hall whose beauty defies description now provides the perfect background for the performance. And another bonus – the opportunity to cross the empty hall and climb the Emperor’s theatre stage.


Roman Dolzhansky. The Sisters as a Premonition

Kommersant, February 2016

This is extremely unscientific fiction and a marvelously beautiful performance.


Vadim Rutkovsky. Physics for the Lyric-minded: New Theatre in Saint Petersburg

Snob, February 2016

18+

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN

A two-part reincarnation experience

The performance makes use of excerpts from Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters

Main Stage

4h. 20m.,
With intermission

  • ANDRIY ZHOLDAK

    Director, Scriptwriter, Lighting Designer

  • ANDRIY ZHOLDAK, DANIEL ZHOLDAK

    Scenic Design

  • DANIEL ZHOLDAK

    Costume and Video Designer

  • SERGEY PATRAMANSKY

    Sound and Music Director

  • DMITRY PESOTSKY

    Assistant Lighting Designer

  • ALEXEI OBRAZTSOV

    Technical Assistant

  • JULIA PROKHOROVA

    Assistant Director

  • ELENA BORUNOVA

    Assistant Directors

  • TATIANA KALININA

    Executive Producer

  • ELENA VOZHAKINA

    Masha

  • OLESYA SOKOLOVA

    Irina

  • ELENA KALININA

    Olga

  • STEPAN BALAKSHIN

    Andrei

  • ELENA KALININA

    Natasha

  • DMITRIY GIREV / SERGEI KUZNETSOV

    Kulygin

  • IGOR VOLKOV

    The Father or Vershinin

  • IVAN EFREMOV

    Tusenbach

  • VLADIMIR MALIKOV

    Saulty

  • SEMYON SYTNIK

    Chebutykin

  • VASILISA ALEXEEVA

    Vershinin’s Wife

  • ALEXANDRA BOLSHAKOVA / ANNA STEPANOVA

    The Mother

Distant future, the year AD 4015, Earth calendar. As a result of a reincarnation experiment, three sisters – Masha, Irina and Olga, deceased in 1900, find a new life in the new world.

They have the classic Anton Chekhov’s play The Three Sisters uploaded into their newly reincarnated brains.

Different kinds of sound, noise and consonance, snatches of phrases they used to utter long ago give the three sisters visions of the past, while simultaneously enabling them to start a new life. Yet their half-forgotten words are filled with the same old hopes and yearnings, and it makes no difference whether the destination of the 41st century heroines is the far away space station called Moscow or the actual ancient capital of the Russian Empire. Is there no way to bypass the programme and to change your destiny?


It is the aim of the experiment to answer this question.


Actors are givers, who ignite a sparkle and keep the fire going in hopes for a better living. They tell the world how to live a better life. The first ever actor was Prometheus, who had challenged the Gods and stolen the light from their feast. He took it for humanity and gave it to us. You are chosen and marked, you are special, you are oracles and preachers. You are not made from plastic, you have red living blood coursing through your veins, which gives you the firsthand instincts of life. How can I remind you that you are kind and generous, or that your hearts start racing and hurting at the smallest instant of ugliness and injustice? You are the guardians of people’s inner beauty, you are the prophets. You have ideal principles stored and hidden inside you and your desires are strong. You are in the middle of the fight for good and evil, between the purity and the dirt. Much, very much today depends entirely on you.

Andriy Zholdak. A letter to the actors of the Turku theatre. May 2012

The performance premiered on February 4, 2016

Media about the

In his Three Sisters on the Alexandrinsky Theatre stage, Zholdak walks in outer space by transferring the events into an unreal future and imagining the three sisters reincarnating and remembering the details of the Prozorovs household and their emotions. He enlarges and completes the familiar biographies (a criminal offence!). The characters are then plunged into Faulkner’s and Bergman’s kinds of abyss. He adds the mercilessness and physiological detail of the modern cinematograph. The result is both earthly and Chekhov-like.


Nina Agisheva. Three Sisters through the Looking Glass

Snob, February 2016

“

The title that may strike you at first as either an attempt at flirting or a sign of precaution against the guardians of pure classic literature, on second thoughts appears remarkably relevant. The words and motifs of Chekhov’s play remain, in Zholdak’s interpretation, precisely on the other side. Not only on the other side of life and death, but also on the other side of the mysterious pulsation of Chekhov’s lines, whose laconic words hold the over rich substance of sense as if in a tight capsule.


Alena Karas’. Flying Like the Strange World Birds

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, March 2016

“

Andriy Zholdak always offers twice as much as an ordinary theatre night can hold. Yet now the wild, almost volcanic Zholdak energy is not wasted on the footlights barrier, but hits the viewers’ heads directly. Secondly, the Alexandrinsky Theatre hall whose beauty defies description now provides the perfect background for the performance. And another bonus – the opportunity to cross the empty hall and climb the Emperor’s theatre stage.


Roman Dolzhansky. The Sisters as a Premonition

Kommersant, February 2016

“

This is extremely unscientific fiction and a marvelously beautiful performance.


Vadim Rutkovsky. Physics for the Lyric-minded: New Theatre in Saint Petersburg

Snob, February 2016

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